Latest Contributions by RobertFord

I have a webapp that lets users find the closest fire stations to them using the Near Me widget within the user specified buffer. Looking at the description, this is using Line Distance. I need to be able to use Street Distance. Alright, so found the Incident Analysis widget. You can specify Enable Routing, and Closest Feature cool. But this only shows 1 feature, the "Closest Feature" even though a buffer is set. So instead I set to proximity. Cool it shows ALL fire stations within the buffer ordered by closest. But wait the miles are different...proximity is using Line Distance it seems. Third time is the charm so lets try the Situational Awareness widget. This basically does exactly the same thing the Incident Analysis widget does but....looks different. The Closest Feature and Proximity give me the same miles however and coincides with the Straight Line Distance from the Incident Analysis widget and Near Me widget. Looking into the Analysis widget, I could use the Choose Best Facilities or Find Nearest tools, but they cost credits and my users cannot select a point on the map. I guess I have 2 questions: 1. Why aren't these all combined into one widget? 2. What should I be using to find a list of fire stations closest to a clicked point on a map based on road distance and not straight line within my WebApp? ... View more

Hello! I am trying to convert some Microsoft Word forms to Survey123. One of these forms (attached) is very customized with background graphics and other images. I was able to recreate the questions easily in the Survey123 webapp, but not the exact layout and look of it. I then created a feature report since those templates use Microsoft Word and I was able to produce the exact look and feel there. My question is how would I go about combining the reporting and the report? The MS Word form they use now is both the form and the report. Once they fill it out, it's complete and they email it and post it to website for all to see manually. There is no need to go into another webpage / system to bring up the report. I'm trying my best to convert our old MS Word and PDF forms to Survey123 so that we can start building dashboards and the like but it's resulting in a more time consuming process on the user end to complete the forms and THEN open a feature report (that also costs credits). Does anyone have any general pointers for this? Thanks! ... View more

It would be great to combine the road distance calculations of "Closest Facility" and straight line distance of "Nearby" in an Infographic. Right now it appears as though "Nearby" is straight line distance in both community analyst and business analyst. I would like to determine what the closest features are based on the road network like the Closest Facility Network Analysis does. It would be great to be able to select one or the other for each feature you want to calculate distances for.   I work for a public safety agency and have created an infographic that shows distances to select features. The types of distances matter because the purpose of it is to show straight distances to threats where roads don't matter ( think explosions and spills from roads, rails, industrial sites, flood zones) and distance to places that could help that MUST use roads to do so (fire/police stations and hospitals).   Below is an example of the report I created with certain details removed:   ... View more

I am wondering how I could use "Closest Facility" instead of "Nearby" in an Infographic? Right now it appears as though "Nearby" is straight line distance. I would like to determine what the closest features are based on the road network instead like the Closest Facility Network Analysis does. Is this possible in an Infographic? ... View more

The title says it all. I am wondering what the methodology is behind ESRI Business Analyst apportioning things that aren't counts. I've read and understand the documentation on apportionment (Data apportionment—ArcGIS REST API: GeoEnrichment Service | ArcGIS for Developers ) but it does not mention statistics such as average, median,...etc. Thanks! ... View more